<<copying jpg's to CD-R

[barney]

I've noticed that when I try to copy jpg's to a CD-R I am usually
limited to 1100-1200 jpg's in 4 or 5 folders. This usually only
amounts to 300 MB. If I try any more than this it will not work. I
don't get an error message, many of the jpg's just aren't copied. .
I usually just drag and drop the folders from the C drive into the E
drive. I'd appreciate any feedback on what could be wrong. I'm
running XP on a P 4. Thanks

 

[Menno Hershberger]

I've noticed that when I try to copy jpg's to a CD-R I am usually
limited to 1100-1200 jpg's in 4 or 5 folders. This usually only
amounts to 300 MB. If I try any more than this it will not work. I
don't get an error message, many of the jpg's just aren't copied. .
I usually just drag and drop the folders from the C drive into the E
drive. I'd appreciate any feedback on what could be wrong. I'm
running XP on a P 4. Thanks

I've heard that the built in CD writing software in XP leaves a lot to be
desired. That's the reason I use NTI CD Maker or Nero for most of my CD-
burning. But after reading your post, I tried dragging and dropping about
650 megs of jpg's to my CD drive, in about 10 folders. I don't know how
many files there were but I'd bet there was close to 5000. It worked. Guess
that doesn't help you much... :-(
But at least I was interested enough to check it out....

 

[barney]

thanks for letting me know

I've heard that the built in CD writing software in XP leaves a lot to be
desired. That's the reason I use NTI CD Maker or Nero for most of my CD-
burning. But after reading your post, I tried dragging and dropping about
650 megs of jpg's to my CD drive, in about 10 folders. I don't know how
many files there were but I'd bet there was close to 5000. It worked. Guess
that doesn't help you much... :-(
But at least I was interested enough to check it out....

 

[barney]

I forgot to ask you what speed you used to do that. I usually use
16X. Is that too fast? thanks

 

[RobertVA]

Turn the CD-R over and determine if all the space has been burned. You
should be able to see the differen't patterns in the full and truely
empty areas. If all of the disk's dye layer has the same texture,
compare its texture to an unused CD-R of the same speed from the same
manufacturer, preferably from the same retail package.

Are you selecting all those folders at once and dragging all the folders
to the CD-R at the same time? I'm wondering if multiple drags are
somehow generating multiple CD writing sesions with the acompanying
multiple file alocation tables. The indexes that allow a computer to
locate files on a CD-R isn't burned on the CD until the session is
ended/closed. When a new sesion is started the old index is flagged as
unuseable and a complete new index will be generated pointing to all the
"undeleted" files (and a full list of all occupied CD space) will be
generated each time a sesion is closed. The old indexes and deleted
files remain on the CD-R taking up space that isn't included in the
total of storage the system will report as in use.

I'm also wondering if some RAM or swap file limitations are becomeing an
issue with the basic capabilities of the burning software that comes
with Windows. It could get complicated when physical memory is smaller
than the combination of the loaded portions operating system, software
and media size.

 

[Bob I]

What is too fast is based on your PC, the software running at the time
of burning, your CD-burner, and the quality of the CD-R disk. Too fast
produces coasters or frisbees.